Name:Angel Nieves_ Humanities Date: _11/30/11_ 6-B Rome Mini-Chapter Please read in Our World pages 218-221, 222-225, 232-235, and 238. No reading in A Little History of the World. The ancient civilization of Rome was founded on the Italian peninsula. The city was founded on the _Latium_ Plain. The Tiber_ River flows through the center of the city. According to mythology, twin brothers named Romulus and Remus founded Rome. After Rome’s last king, whose name was Tarquinius was overthrown, Rome became a _Republic, which is a government in which the people citizens choose their representatives to speak for them and pass laws_. (The U.S.A. has this form of government.) Rome was divided up into _two social groups: plebeians and _patricians _. Plebeians are lower class people who work for patricians, who are rich land-_owners. The patricians were not always fair towards the plebeians. So, the plebeians _fought_ and got the patricians to publish Rome’s first set of _laws_. These were called The _Twelve_ Tables. The most powerful branch of Rome’s government was the Senate_. It was made up of _patricians_. It controlled law-making and how _money was spent in Rome. _Tribunes_ were elected by the plebians_ from the Citizen _assembly. They asked the consuls to pass laws for the plebeians. There were two powerful _representatives__. One was head of the _army _ and one was a chief judge.
Rome wanted to be the unquestioned leader of the entire Mediterranean region. So they went to war with the civilization of _Carthage_ over who would control the island of Sicily. These wars were called the Punic _war_. Julius _Ceasar was Rome’s first _dictator, which is an all-powerful ruler. Caesar was from a wealthy _patrician family, and he had built up his power as a Senator, Consul, and later as military _ governor of _the _ [France]. After Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Senate_, his adopted stepson, named Octavian Caesar, became emperor. Rome grew in power and in the size of the area that it controlled. The time when Augustus _Ceasar_ ruled was called the Pax Romana, which means Roman peace_. To pay for its huge building projects, Rome collected _tax_ money from those it had conquered. It counted the numbers of people whom it had conquered; they called this count a _census_. Roman soldiers built an immense network of _pipes[roads]. Water was carried to new Roman cities on raised water bridges called aqueducts. Roman citizens enjoyed bloody entertainment in Rome’s immense Colosseum, which is where gladiators fought to the _death.
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Name:Angel Nieves_ Humanities
Date: _11/30/11_ 6-B
Rome Mini-Chapter
Please read in Our World pages 218-221, 222-225, 232-235, and 238. No reading in A Little History of the World.
The ancient civilization of Rome was founded on the Italian peninsula. The city was founded on the _Latium_ Plain. The Tiber_ River flows through the center of the city.
According to mythology, twin brothers named Romulus and Remus founded Rome. After Rome’s last king, whose name was Tarquinius was overthrown, Rome became a _Republic, which is a government in which the people citizens choose their representatives to speak for them and pass laws_. (The U.S.A. has this form of government.)
Rome was divided up into _two social groups: plebeians and _patricians _. Plebeians are lower class people who work for patricians, who are rich land-_owners. The patricians were not always fair towards the plebeians. So, the plebeians _fought_ and got the patricians to publish Rome’s first set of _laws_. These were called The _Twelve_ Tables.
The most powerful branch of Rome’s government was the Senate_. It was made up of _patricians_. It controlled law-making and how _money was spent in Rome. _Tribunes_ were elected by the plebians_ from the Citizen _assembly. They asked the consuls to pass laws for the plebeians. There were two powerful _representatives__. One was head of the _army _ and one was a chief judge.
Rome wanted to be the unquestioned leader of the entire Mediterranean region. So they went to war with the civilization of _Carthage_ over who would control the island of Sicily. These wars were called the Punic _war_.
Julius _Ceasar was Rome’s first _dictator, which is an all-powerful ruler. Caesar was from a wealthy _patrician family, and he had built up his power as a Senator, Consul, and later as military
_ governor of _the _ [France]. After Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Senate_, his adopted stepson, named Octavian Caesar, became emperor. Rome grew in power and in the size of the area that it controlled. The time when Augustus _Ceasar_ ruled was called the Pax Romana, which means Roman peace_. To pay for its huge building projects, Rome collected _tax_ money from those it had conquered. It counted the numbers of people whom it had conquered; they called this count a _census_. Roman soldiers built an immense network of _pipes[roads]. Water was carried to new Roman cities on raised water bridges called aqueducts. Roman citizens enjoyed bloody entertainment in Rome’s immense Colosseum, which is where gladiators fought to the _death.